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FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 110,111, 112. 1874. 31 the usual examining board for promotion, and, if he is found qualified, the President of the United States is authorized by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint him a lieutenant on the active list, next below Lieutenant Edwin S. Jacob: Provided, Thathe shall Proviso. not receive any extra pay for the time he was on the retired list, and not on active duty, prior to his restoration under this act. Approved, April 17, 1874. CHAP. 110.-An act to amend the act entitled “An act for enrolling and licensing April 18, 1874. ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulat· ing the same," passed February eighteen, seventeen hundred and ninety-three. p_ 305_` ’ ’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act to which this is a Canal boats cxsupplement shall not be so construed as to extend the provisions of °mP* f'?;. °’“°u‘ the said act to canal boats or boats employed on the internal waters or mgmt an ‘°°“S°‘ canals of any State; and all such boats, excepting only such as are Exceptions. provided with sails or propelling machinery of their own adapted to lake or coastwise navigation, and excepting such as are employed in trade with the Canadas, shall be exempt from the provisions of the said act, and from the payment of all customs and other fees under any act of Congress. Approved, April 18, 1874. CHAP. 111.-An act to secure to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of tho April 18, 1874. Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States the land in the White-Earth In- _"`“`;—"“ dinn reservation in Minnesota, on which is situated their church and other build- 111gS. Be it enacted. bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Gi-ant of land in terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the whim Emil I¤<lis»¤ consent of the Mississippi bands of Chippewa Indians, to cause to be ;‘;‘;‘;‘;a°;.§f issued a patent to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the my and ,0;,0,,1 p,,,- Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, for eighty acres ofposcs. land, to embrace the church, parsonage and hospital, and such other buildings as may have been, or may, prior to the issue of such patent be, erected by and under the direction of said society on the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota, said land to be selected by the person acting under the authority of- said society, and reported by the United States agent for the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, through the Office of Indian Aifairs, to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the Baillie to be deestate to be conveyed to said society shall cease and be determined t°“"‘“°“¤ “’1‘°“· when the land and the erections thereon shall no longer be occupied and used by said society for missionary and school purposes. Approved, April 18, 1874. CHAP. 112.-An act to authorize the use of certain unexpended balance for pay- A,,,.,, 18, 1874 ment of expenses of Board of Indian Commissioners. -——-·-———————-—~ Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- piwmcut of BX- rior is hereby authorized to use for the payment of the expenses of the pcnses of Board or Board of Indian Commissioners, for the year ending June thirtieth, udlw C°¤°m*S¤*°¤· eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the unexpended balance of the °”‘ appropriation made for said purpose by act of May twenty-ninth, 1879, ch. 233, vol. eighteen hundred and seventy-two , said unexpended balance being XVW P· 186- eight thousand and sixtyone dollars and seventyonc cents. Approved, April 18, 1874.